Re: http request using fsockopen

From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos_at_acm.org)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:44:41 -0300

Hello,

On 10/25/2004 09:46 AM, Rob wrote:
>
> I have a form on page A which is submitted trough a POST method to page B.
> On the start of page B I check var $foo. If true I want to "forward" the
> request to
> page C. Sending the POST data also though the POST method.
>
> I manually create a HTTP request to page C and use the fsockopen method to
> sent the request.
>
> As a result I get the requested page C (status code "200 OK" is returned)
> but the
> POST data is not received/parsed(?). I mean the $_POST array is empty in
> page C. All other PHP scripts in page C is executed as expected though.
>
> My questions:
> 1 Is what I am doing possible in the first place?

Sure.

> 2 If so, what is the correct syntax to sent the
> POST data ($query) in the entity body of the request?

It is hard to tell but you may not be sending the request data correctly.

You may want to try this HTTP client class that you can be sure that it
can compose and send your POST requests properly.

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient 

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